2001-Reg-WashU A

							2001 ACF Regionals
Tossups by Washington University A

1. It now hangs in the Belvedere Gallery, along with many other of the artist's works in his hometown. In it the two
figures rest on a bed of flowers. The man is dark-haired and his face is turned from the viewer, while the woman
faces out with her eyes closed. Their clothes are a combination of metallic gold paint and patterns of geometric
shapes in the artist’s signature style. Sharing its name with famous sculptures by Brancusi and Rodin, FTP, name
this Gustav Klimt painting of two people locked in an eternal embrace.
          Answer: The Kiss

2. The title character is found upon a return from Rowe’s. His brother is rich – a director in the bank – but he didn’t
walk the thirteen miles to his brother’s house because there might be some bad blood between them. He has come
back to work for Warren, who utters the memorable line, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, /
They have to take you in.” We know that his name is Silas, he has come back to ditch the meadow, and that Mary
found him “huddled against the barn-door.” Alas, when Warren goes to talk to him, we learn that he is dead. FTP,
name this title character of a poem by Robert Frost.
          Answer: “Death of the Hired Man” (accept early Silas)

3. It enables exact measurements of relative motion made in space docking, as well as in measurements of magnetic,
gravitational and electric fields. It describes those radioactive substances where atoms are held in a tight crystalline
structure, and gamma rays are emitted at a frequency corresponding to the difference between nuclear ground-state
energy and excited-state energy. If said gamma rays strike atoms of the same element in a similar structure, another
gamma ray of the same frequency may be emitted, however that emission is always recoil free. FTP, name this
effect named for the winner of the 1961 Physics Nobel.
          Answer: Mossbauer Effect

4. Early on it was split into two lines, one of which was the Franconian, headed by Conrad I, a descendant of its
supposed founder, Burchard I. One of its members became the first king of Romania as Carol I, while his brother
Leopold’s candidacy for the Spanish throne elicited a French objection that touched of a 19 th-century war.
Beginning as counts, its members first gained power by becoming electors of Brandenburg and later, burgraves of
Nuremberg. Frederick the Great was its most famous member, while Kaiser Wilhelm II was its last ruler. FTP,
name this long-time Prussian dynasty.
         Answer: Hohenzollern

5. The first research studies on this subject were conducted by Leon Festinger in 1957. Quantitative measurement is
possible by calculating its eponymous ratio. Current perspectives on this issue include the free-choice paradigm and
the belief-disconfirmation paradigm, while alternative explanations include self-perception and the self-consistency
theories. It postulates that pairs of ideas can conflict, motivating the person to reduce this conflict and to avoid
information that reinforces this conflict. FTP, name this psychology idea that describes the condition of turmoil or
anxiety that results from inconsistency between one’s beliefs and one’s actions.
          Answer: cognitive dissonance

6. “The Racing Cutter” and “Phoebus Apollo turned fasting friar” are just two of the nicknames for people in this
novel invented by the title character’s neighbor, Mrs. Mountstuart Jackson. The character of Vernon Whitford was
drawn from Leslie Stephen, while Dr. Middleton was based on Thomas Love Peacock. Having already been
rejected by Constantia Durham, the title character pursues Clara Middleton by winning her father’s support with his
family port. However, through the intervention of Crossjay, the titular nobleman is jilted again and must settle for
Laetitia Dale. Sir Willoughby Patterne is, FTP, the “self-interested” title character of what George Meredith novel?
         Answer: The Egoist
7. Their discovery by Hamilton Smith, Werner Arber, and Daniel Nathans led to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine. Often found in various bacteria or yeast cells, they are divided into three classes with the first and third
classes being similar in that all methylase activities are conducted by one complex. Common examples include
Bam-H-1 and Eco-R-1, the first to be discovered. The key component of gene splicing, they target specific short
sequences in a DNA strand that are usually palindromic. Designed to chop up foreign DNA that may be
detrimental, they cleave around those palindromic sequences. FTP, name this class of enzymes.
         Answer: Restriction Enzymes or Restriction Endonucleases

8. His father was Gilbert, who furthered the reputation of their family of Norman knights. Charged with
misappropriating court funds, he fled to France for six years. This had followed his troubled time as the king’s
chancellor when he refused to acknowledge the validity of the Constitutions of Clarendon. Having succeeded
Theobald in his most famous post, he instituted many of the policies of Gregorian reform, which further weakened
his relationship with his king, Henry II. FTP, name this man who, on December 29, 1170, was murdered by four
knights in Canterbury Cathedral.
          Answer: Saint Thomas à Becket

9. This deity owns Hildesvini, the “battle boar,” which is actually the human Ottar in disguise. Other possessions
include the eternally loyal chamberbaid Fulla; falcon skin that allows one to take the form of a bird; and the palace
of Folkvang, where love songs are always played in the hall of Sessrumir. Depicted as riding into battle in a chariot
drawn by two cats, she is always found wearing the necklace of the Brisings, though it was once stolen by Loki.
FTP, name this daughter of Niord, the foremost goddess of the Vanir and sister of Frey.
         Answer: Freya (do not accept “Frigg” or “Frigga”)

10. As court advisor to the Elector of Mainz, he drafted the failed Egyptian Plan, a proposal to divert the armies of
Louis XIV away from Holland and Germany. A chance meeting with Huygens led to his immersion in
mathematics, through which he co-discovered the determinant and named the function. However, he may be better
known for founding a philosophical system based on the principles of non-contradiction and sufficient reason,
combining the inorganic, the organic, and the divine into one structure. FTP, name this philosopher a proponent of
monadology and co-discoverer of calculus.
         Answer: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

11. The title character is about to die on a cold night after having been scalded by boiling water earlier in the day
when he is taken in by a man who gives him the first name of Poligraph. Characters such as Shvonder and the
members of the house committee are the basis for this harsh criticism of the author’s day. The plot revolves around
a transplant performed by Professor Philip Philippovich, using the testes and pituitary gland of a petty criminal.
What results is Sharikov, a character that spouts Engels and finds his niche as the official in charge of ridding the
city of stray cats. FTP, name this comedic Mikhail Bulgakov novel about an experiment gone wrong on a canine.
          Answer: Heart of a Dog or Sobaché serdtse

12. 21 years after its formation the government enacted its namesake Liquidation Act, providing for the transfer of
its duties to other government agencies. It would serve different duties than originally intended as two-thirds of its
disbursements were funneled toward national defense, particularly during World War II. Under the chairmanship of
Jessie Jones, it was directed to lend money to banks, railroads, insurance companies, and building and loan
associations. Disbanded in 1957 and created in 1932, FTP, name this subsidiary of the National Recovery
Administration that was abbreviated RFC.
          Answer: Reconstruction Finance Corporation (accept early RFC)

13. It is especially useful in converting negative or fractional exponents into ordinary algebraic expressions from
which the leading-order dependence may be determined. It can be written in the form “(n choose r) times a to the n
minus r, times b to the r. Newton stated it in general form in 1676, and Bernoulli's later proof of it was published in
1713. It is often connected to Pascal's triangle, in which you can quickly look up the coefficients of any term in an
expansion. FTP, name this theorem that allows for the expansion of its namesake algebraic expression without
requiring the explicit multiplication of the binomial terms.
           Answer: Binomial theorem
14. His Concerted Music for Harpsichord, for two violins and harpsichord, was among the earliest works to give the
keyboard an independent part. He was an important music theorist and published the Treatise on Harmony, which
later secured him a position as a composer for the financier La Poupliniere. The Pièces de Clavecin pour Concerts
is his most famous chamber work, though he was better known for his court appointment at Versailles as a composer
of operas. A participant in the War of the Buffoons, he criticized Pergolesi in favor of exciting music as seen in his
works, Les Paladins, Castor and Pollux, and Hippolytus and Aricia. FTP, name this French Baroque operatic
composer of the early 18th-century
          Answer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

15. In the chorus’ final long speech in this play they ask Dionysus to protect their city. This follows the suicide of
Eurydice, who called down curses upon her husband before she died. Her husband promised to heed the wishes of
Tiresias but did not, leading to his wife and son’s death after he had ordered his niece left to die in a sealed tomb.
Opening a few days after the seven against Thebes have retreated, the plot centers on Creon’s refusal to give proper
burial rites to Polynices, which his sister does. FTP, name this play about a daughter of Oedipus, the final play in
Sophocles Oedipus trilogy.
          Answer: Antigone

16. The Marquis de Sable and the Count d’Avaux were the real agents of France at the negotiation, though the Duke
of Longueville was the puppet leader. The most important delegates were Count Maximilian von Trautmansdorff
and John Oxenstierna. The Spanish-Dutch portion of it was signed ten months before the major settlement, and it
was primarily negotiated in the towns of Munster and Osnabruck. It confirmed the Peace of Augsburg and allowed
for toleration of Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists in the Holy Roman Empire. FTP, identify this 1648
treaty that ended the Thirty Years’ War.
          Answer: Peace of Westphalia

17. The first of them can be proved exactly within the Hartree-Fock approximation. All of them presume L-S or
Russel-Saunders coupling but do not apply for heavier substances in which j-j coupling predominates. Employed in
conjunction with the Aufbau principle, they are a result of spin-spin interaction, orbit-orbit interaction, and spin-
orbit coupling respectively. The first states that the term with the maximum multiplicity lies lowest in energy and
the others follow in that vein. FTP, identify this set of guidelines that allows one to determine the quantum numbers
for the ground states of atoms, a set of guidelines named for their German discoverer.
          Answer: Hund’s rules

18. Among its notable landmarks are Markhams Building and the massive business structure known as Corner
House. This city is the capital of the Gauteng province, and the largest of the ten cities that lie in the Witwatersrand.
Alexandra, its nation’s poorest area lies within its suburbs as does the bleak area of Booysens Reserve. These are all
areas on the urban periphery, known as townships, of which the most famous is Soweto. Founded in 1886 after the
discovery of nearby gold, FTP, name this largest city in South African.
         Answer: Johannesburg

19. It begins with the author’s encounter with the protagonist in Warwick Castle and ends with a P.S. from the
author, who read the Manuscript that details this story. The protagonist opens his tale by telling how he was
knocked out in a duel with a man named Hercules and when he woke up his adventure truly began. With the help of
the erstwhile page Clarence and the lady Sandy, he used his mechanical ingenuity to lead a revolution across
England, which he arrived in during the year 528. Featuring the son of a blacksmith from Hartford, FTP, name this
novel by Mark Twain.
          Answer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

20. After he left office, he published This Country of Ours, a series of essays on how the government works. In
addition, he served as counsel for Venezuela over a boundary dispute with British Guiana. Successes of his
presidency included calling the first Pan American Conference and passing the Dependent Pension Act for war
veterans. When James Blaine declined the Republican nomination, this man and his running mate, Levi Morton,
quickly seized the opportunity. Despite the popular Sherman Silver Purchase Act, he was damaged by the formation
of the Populist Party. FTP, name this 23rd president who interrupted Cleveland’s two terms.
         Answer: Benjamin Harrison (prompt on just last name)
21. It was originally presented to the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, although the
repercussions of its publishing were felt more elsewhere. Taking an example of men who lugged pig-iron at the
Midvale Steel Company, the author applied time and motion studies to determine the best method for performing a
task in the least amount of time. This collection of essays is primarily concerned with improving worker output by
providing adequate education and fostering cooperation. Published in 1911, FTP, name this landmark in
management theory by Frederick Taylor.
          Answer: Principles of Scientific Management

22. Common uses of this mechanism include converting heat from kerosene into power for radios in remote areas
and detecting small amounts of heat exchange in enzymes. At high temperatures platinum and rhodium are used,
but at moderate temperatures, iron may be used. It states that if two wires of different materials are joined at their
ends and one end is maintained at a higher temperature than the other, a voltage difference will arise, and an electric
current will exist between the hot and the cold junctions. FTP, name this physical effect, an analogue of the Peltier
effect.
         Answer: Seebeck Effect

23. The title character of this play resigns in protest following the acceptance of a 5,000-pound donation from her
father. Another blow occurs when her fiance, a professor of Greek named Adolphus Cusins, is named as her
father’s heir. Of course that follows the tradition in which the family cannon business is always passed down to
someone outside the family. Tensions were already high when Lady Britomart invites her estranged husband
Andrew Undershaft, the current owner of the business, back into their home. The title character is Undershaft's
daughter, an officer of the Salvation Army in, FTP, what play by George Bernard Shaw?
          Answer: Major Barbara

24. An orphan boy sings at the funeral of a singer who has returned to his native country, where the people have
read of his prowess but never had any proof in this author’s The Fish Can Sing. In his last novel, Christianity at
Glacier, a young bishop’s emissary comes from the capital to lose his innocence to an immortal woman in the
tundra. While in the U.S., he wrote a series of essays entitled The Book of the People before returning to his
birthplace. FTP, name this Nobel laureate whose novels, like Independent People and The Great Weaver of
Kashmir, are set almost entirely in his native country, Iceland.
         Answer: Halldór Laxness
2001 ACF Regionals
Bonuses by Washington University A

1. Answer these questions about a certain secret society FTP each.
A. Also called “Union or Death,” this was the terrorist organization that assassinated the Austrian Archduke to
begin World War I.
        Answer: Black Hand
B. Name the nationalist who succeeded in the assassination.
        Answer: Gavrilo Princip
C. Name the city where the Archduke was killed.
        Answer: Sarajevo

2. Identify the French author, given works FTP each.
A. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
          Answer: Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos
B. Les Enfants Terribles, Orpheus
          Answer: Jean Cocteau
C. Gigi
          Answer: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

3. Name these things related to black holes FTP each.
A. The center of a black hole is a point of zero volume and infinite density known as this.
          Answer: singularity
B. The singularity is covered by the black hole's "surface", a boundary past which even light cannot escape that is
given this name.
          Answer: event horizon
C. In 1994 the Hubble Space Telescope found the first convincing evidence of a black hole when it spotted an object
of 2.5 to 3.5 billion solar masses at the center of this galaxy
          Answer: M87

4. Identify the Italian director, given films FTP each.
A. Amarcord, 8 ½, La strada, La dolce vita
          Answer: Federico Fellini
B. The Children Are Watching Us and the highly acclaimed neorealist film The Bicycle Thief.
          Answer: Vittorio De Sica
C. Paisan, and the neorealist classic Rome, Open City
          Answer: Roberto Rossellini

5. Name these things about the XYZ Affair, FTP each.
A. French agents solicited bribes for this French foreign minister.
         Answer: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
B. What was the amount of the bribe sought by the French agents?
         Answer: $250,000
C. All or nothing, name the three American diplomats appointed by President Adams to resolve the dispute between
France and the United States.
         Answer: John Marshall AND Elbridge Gerry AND Charles C. Pinckney

6. Answer the following about an American author, FTP each.
A. What man’s more than 30 novels include The Lady of Arostook and A Fearful Responsibility?
          Answer: William Dean Howells
B. William Dean Howells is best-known for what novel about a nouveau-riche bumpkin’s redemption when he loses
all his wealth? This is ironic considering the title.
          Answer: The Rise of Silas Lapham
C. What Howells novel concerns Basil and Isabel March, who give up Boston for a future in New York?
          Answer: A Hazard of New Fortunes
7. Name these parts of fungi, FTP each.
A. These are the small, filamentous structures that make up the majority of the fungi.
         Answer: hyphae [hi-FEE]
B. Hyphae are often separated by these perforated walls.
         Answer: septae
C. This liquid substance flows through the septae, transporting nutrients to other hyphae.
         Answer: protoplasm

8. Name these people in the life of Perseus, FTP each.
A. Zeus came to this imprisoned mother of Perseus in the form of a golden shaft of light.
         Answer: Danae
B. Perseus resolved to bring back the head of Medusa because this tyrannical king planned to marry his mother.
         Answer: Polydectes
C. This brother of King Polydectes, in whose home Perseus and Danae remained until Perseus reached adulthood,
was the fisherman who found them adrift at sea and brought them to his wife.
         Answer: Dictys

9. Given a country, name its highest peak, FTP each
A. Canada
         Answer: Mount Logan
B. Mexico
         Answer: Pico de Orizaba
C. Germany
         Answer: Zugspitze [TSUG-spitz-uh]

10. Answer these questions about the Roman occupation of Britain, FTP each.
A. Name the Roman governor who made the most progress in conquering Scotland. He also happened to be
Tacitus’ father-in-law.
         Answer: Agricola
B. Name the wall constructed along the Forth in the second century. It was named for the ruling family at the time.
         Answer: the Antonine Wall
C. By what name did the Romans know the people of the north? The Romans couldn’t beat them, but Kenneth I,
king of the Scotland was more successful, conquering them in 850.
         Answer: Picts

11. Name these fictional works by Umberto Eco, for the stated number of points.
A. For 15 points, This novel explores man’s arbitrary ways of measuring and defining time through the character of
Roberto della Griva.
         Answer: The Island of the Day Before
B. For 10 points, In this novel, three dodgy publishers start investigating a document that describes a secret energy
source known only to a league of medieval knights.
         Answer: Foucault’s Pendulum
C. For 5 points, This murder mystery is set in a medieval monastery. Brother William of Baskerville’s hunt for
clues leads the narrator, a young monk, to ponder signs and their meanings.
         Answer: The Name of the Rose

12. Name these terms relating to the conformations of organic molecules, FTP each.
A. Studies of angles between two atoms are facilitated by using this diagram, which is essentially a circle with sticks
representing substituent atoms.
         Answer: Newman projection
B. Conformations which force substituent atoms to align together in a Newman projection are described as being in
this form.
         Answer: eclipsed form
C. Newman projections can help measure the torsional energy derived from this phenomenon where electrons from
adjacent atoms push away from one another.
         Answer: steric hindrance
13. Name these composer-pianists from descriptions FTP each.
A. This showy pianist and father-in-law to Richard Wagner has been credited with inventing the piano recital and
the symphonic poem.
          Answer: Franz Liszt
B. In 1904 at age 13, he became the youngest person to enter the St. Petersburg Conservatory, later winning the
Rubenstein Prize by performing his First Concerto.
          Answer: Sergei Prokofiev
C. The compositions of this Russian pianist are often confused with Chopin's, though he was born more than sixty
years later. Compositions such as The Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire reflect his mysticism,
which is code for he was crazy.
          Answer: Alexander Scriabin

14. Given the country and years in power, name the political party FTP each.
A. Mexico, 1929-2000
          Answer: PRI or Partido Revolucionario Institucional
B. Japan, 1955-present day
          Answer: LDP or Liberal Democrats
C. Iraq, 1968-present day
          Answer: Ba’ath Party

15. Identify the architect, given a work or works FTP each
A. Place Ville-Marie in Montreal and a rebuilding project for the Louvre begun in 1984
         Answer: I.M. Pei
B. Baker House, at MIT; House of Culture, in Helsinki
         Answer: Alvar Aalto
C. Woolworth Building; Supreme Court Building
         Answer: Cass Gilbert

16. Name these Middle English literary works or authors, FTP each.
A. William Langland is credited with the authorship of this religious allegory.
         Answer: The Vision of Piers Plowman
B. The man who wrote Sir Gawain and The Green Wright is known by this name, which derives from another poem
by him, a religious dream allegory that begins as an elegy for a dead daughter.
         Answer: the Pearl Poet
C. Chaucer’s first important original work, it is an elegy for John of Gaunt’s first wife.
         Answer: The Book of the Duchess

17. Name these geologic theories and scientists who postulated them, for the stated number of points.
A. This theory describes origin of the continents from a giant land mass that the discoverer called Pangaea. Name
the theory and its formulator for 5 points each.
         Answer: Continental Drift and Alfred Wegener
B. Changes in Earth's magnetic fields were found in stripes lateral to the Mid-Atlantic ridge, leading two scientists
to propose that new crust is created inside these ridges. Name this theory for 10 points, and EITHER scientist for
another 10 points.
         Answer: Seafloor Spreading Theory and Robert Dietz OR Harry Hess

18. Name these works by Francis Bacon FTP each.
A. Unlike most of Bacon’s philosophical works, this one appeared in English, not Latin. It divides knowledge into
history, poetry, and philosophy, each of which is enumerated and analysed.
          Answer: The Advancement of Learning
B. This Bacon treatise is an account of a visit to an imaginary island of Bensalem in the Pacific, explaining its title.
          Answer: The New Atlantis
C. This work describes, in a series of aphorisms, the method by which knowledge was to be universalized. Along
the way, Bacon introduces four “Idols,” or false images of the mind that impair knowledge.
          Answer: Novum Organum
19. Given an event in English history, name the monarch at that time, FTP each.
A. The Irish Free State is formed.
         Answer: George V (the year was 1922)
B. Peterloo Massacre
         Answer: George III (the year was 1819)
C. Battle of Dettingen, the last engagement in which an English monarch participated in person
         Answer: George II (the year was 1743)

20. Identify the following related to sex chromosome abnormalities in humans, FTP each.
A. The genotype for females afflicted with this syndrome is XO. Effects include unusually short stature and
sterility.
           Answer: Turner’s Syndrome
B. This is the name for the syndrome present in males who have more than one X chromosome. Effects include
abnormally small testes and sterility. The severity of mental retardation increases with the number of additional X
chromosomes present.
           Answer: Klinefelter’s Syndrome
C. This is the name given to females with trisomy X, i.e. three X chromosomes.
           Answer: metafemale(s)

21. Identify the European author from clues, 30-20-10.
30: Lesser-known works include Anecdotes of Destiny. This writer sometimes used the pseudonym of Pierre
Andrezel.
20: She also wrote Shadows in the Grass and Angelic Avengers.
10: Her best-known work, Out of Africa, consists of recollections of running a coffee plantation in Kenya. Her real
name was Karen Blixen.
         Answer: Isak Dinesen (accept Karen Blixen before the 10-point clue)